Bonjour 2010!
It was nice waking up with you even though I had a terrible hangover and was still in full clothing.
2009 was the fastest year I have ever experienced and we hardly got to know each other.
2010 sounds better and will be the year were I start to grow up.
And turn 30.
Holy shit!
Also, a comic:
DANCE DANCE DANCE and I`m now going to watch Hulu and Netflix ALL DAY!
(and get poor thanks to the STEAM Holiday sale, Mass Effect for 5$!)
Hei Seattle (and Maple Valley), you were awesome!
I had a great time thanks to Antje, Conor, his family and friends.
Went to Fantagraphics, ate good food, bought some books, saw a movie with a fantastic Fox, hiked a Mountain.
I also got a new Sketchbook and I`m exited to put it to use.
Hope everyone is happy with how Christmas 2009 went, lets cheer for the final days of this year and then kick 2009 in the butt!
IN THE BUTT!
Hello hello,
Christmas is around the corner, my train tickets for Seattle are booked and I`m trying to finish a comic page every day.
This is not really working so far thanks to me not really hitting the tone I want to hit with some of the drawings.
Take the following one for example, it SHOULD show some rough treasure hunting dudes (for the first time) on their way deeper into a foreign jungle.
I drew them on the Wacom, I drew them with pencil and then with the Wacom again.. still.. its not the look I wanted them to have..
I also don’t like the fact that they are not DOING anything. They pose for an invisible camera and the panel tells nothing more than show their faces. Hmpf..
My deadline is still far away in the next year so fumbling around like this is OK but it still sucks to waste so much time and it does not feel good.
ON A HAPPIER NOTE:
I finished THE HOBBIT and its a way looser and quicker book than I remembered.
It really feels like something that could be read to children over a couple of weeks.
One thing that made me wonder though..
Balin`s (one of the Dwarfs) clear love for our main Hobbit.. was Tolkien hinting at some small-men-love going on?
Here is a drawing of Balin saying farewell to his “friend”.
Happy holidays to everyone in Germany and everywhere else, I will post some Seattle pictures after the weekend and I hope everyone gets very expensive stuff they dont really need but REALLY want.
Thanks to Laura Hudson from ComicAlliance, Periscope Studios got the opportunity to draw the
“12 Days of Christmas” Song, doing Illustrations with its lyrics until the 25th of December.
And because their hearts are deep and giving, they even let me participate in it!
The draft gave me “turtledoves”, which unknown to me at this point, is a real exiting species.
Not knowing this, sketches like these came out:
And then, with the help of Colleen Coover kicking my lazy butt around, this got made:
Hooray Turtles!
Hei Vancouver, it was nice meeting you:
I just realized that there are nearly no humans EVER in my photographs. WEIRD!
Vancouver was nice, the hostel was great and it was entertaining to talk to all those travelling folks.
Not so nice:
- very loud snoring Korean guy
- the US boarder people harassing and mind-raping me
- a big headache
But I now have a Work and Travel Visa and everything worked out great.
Also:
Thanks to the formidable Sam Bosma, I started reading the Hobbit again (the last time being more then 14 years ago). And I’m proud to say that I must have bought the best edition available, look at this cover:
Its fat Ricky Garvais!
I’m now off to work on a Illustration thing containing Ninjas, Turtles and some teeth!
Have a good week!
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